The Ricochet PodcastEp. 143: Live!

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For 142 shows, we’ve never been in the same room at the same time. That ends with this show, which we recorded in front of an audience on the National Review cruise aboard the Nieuw Amsterdam somewhere in the Caribbean. Our guests are Deroy Murdock, Jonah Goldberg, John Yoo, and Jay Nordlinger. We hope you have as much much listening to it as we had recording it.

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What’s with the spelling? The name on the bow is “Nieuw Amsterdam”, proper Dutch spelling. You could Anglicise it to “New Amsterdam”, perhaps. But “Niew”? I blame Goldberg – he mis-spelled it in his tweet from Jamaica.

Robert Dammers: What’s with the spelling? The name on the bow is “Nieuw Amsterdam”, proper Dutch spelling. You could Anglicise it to “New Amsterdam”, perhaps. But “Niew”? I blame Goldberg – he mis-spelled it in his tweet from Jamaica. · 8 minutes ago

Wow, it’s amazing how the tempo changes when ya’ll aren’t broadcasting from separate hidden locations (speeds and tightens–sort of like you’re frightened the audience will rush the stage and ram cocktail parasols into your eyeballs, an entirely rational view of any audience anywhere it goes without saying (see Limelight, the Chaplin one). I’m only a couple of minutes in, but I will welcome a return to normalcy.

And I was so hoping you’d do this drunk. Somewhere short of “commode-hugging” drunk, but that might have been interesting too.

edited: replaced inartful repetition of “view” in penultimate sentence of first para with paradoxical cliche. Because it was bugging me.